The classic New York Times–bestselling tale of suspense and intrigue that takes readers behind the scenes of the secretive billion-dollar diamond business From a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as...
As an editorial cartoonist on a big St. Louis newspaper, Jennifer Aldrich made her living pointing up the follies and weaknesses of the nation's politicians. But all her scorn for politicians deserted her when she met Congressman Ben Trostel. Here wa...
In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse,...
Playing the sport called love was all in the game... The difference between Bobbi Morrow and Blain Pearson was sizable -- in more ways than one. A star player for the Washington Bullets basketball team, Blain had known a lot of women, but was neve...
SHE WAS THROWN INTO THE ARMS OF A STRANGER AT SEA--AND ANOTHER ONE ON LAND It was on a storm-tossed Atlantic crossing that young American Abigail Dawson found herself clinging for more than life to Charles Lydiard, the handsome Englishman supposed...
In his powerful new novel, Elia Kazan takes up the life of the young Greek from Anatolia whose early years he chronicled in his first and highly acclaimed novel, America America, giving us the story of a man caught between two worlds and fighting to ...
Apache Tears--that was the name of the gemlike stones beautiful young Catriona Frazer mounted in the exquisite jewelry she fashioned. She went to the Indian reservation, leaving behind the secure world of her established life, to learn from the famou...
Mark Lomax, a radio engineer living in Geneva holds evidence to a World War II war crime---the sole evidence, except for that buried beneath the Arctic Ocean--evidence sought by Polish revolutionaries, the CIA, and the U.S.S.R...
She meant to fire a warning shot, but instead Lily Dunbar's aim faltered and she grazed the hunter himself. She had ventured too far into the wilderness of Reece Wakefield's vast Chilean ranch, now an oncoming storm thrust her into his arms and he re...
To my mind, Michael Hague is THE best children's book illustrator of our time. His detailed and evocative images will become the classic pictorial references for the great works of children's literature he has turned his eye toward....
Once Lane Winters had been a girl with dreams of glory: She would sing and the world would listen. Ross Matthews was the man--the lover--she had left behind in her quest to make it on her own. The dream had come true. Her voice had indeed been ...
Once lovers, could they still be best of friends? The idea of sharing a house in California's Topanga Canyon enticed Kelly Mitchell. On her meager salary as a physical education teacher, she found that communal living offered a high quality li...
Pronzini is a pro.?The New York Times His P.I. license reinstated, his old friend Eberhardt back on his feet, and things with his girlfriend Kerry patched up, Nameless is ready to roll again. On his first day back at work, he lands an assignment he w...
When Alec's fiancee is killed in a tragic accident, he flees west with the Black. Dazed and heartsick, Alec wanders in the desert until a Native American boy rescues him from near death and recounts a startling prophecy. According to legend, a rider ...
Original title: Payment for the Piper. A magnificent saga of courage and ambition set in Scotland and New Zealand. Setting out for New Zealand in the 1840s to find her brother, Scots blacksmith's daughter Hannah Lindsay inherits her share of a ...
The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that pr...
Her family tricked her into a betrothal with an evil old man. There was nothing to do but run... The first tiling Callista did was disguise herself as a boy, which was not easy with her long raven tresses and voluptuous body. But she managed to ge...
Can beautiful, outspoken young Holly English help a young man with a physical handicap overcome doubts about God and find a true and lasting love? Holly English is an aspiring young Christian writer who takes a job at Reed’s Candy Shoppe. Almost...
Captain Lance Edwards had sailed the seas and obtained women ever since he was a lad, and no woman had ever resisted his masculine magnetism -- no one but the luscious, jet-haired Elise. Passionately attracted to the strong-minded beauty, Lance str...
INNOCENCE GONE Wren van der Rhys - rescued from London's alleys when the magnificent couple, Sirena and Regan, take her into their hearts, she ripens into a creature as enchanting and wild as Sirena, as headstrong and fierce as Regan. SAVAGE ...
BURIED ALIVE! The Hardys have come to Lake Tahoe to investigate the kidnapping of movie star Richard Chase. The disappearance is the latest in a series of suspicious incidents that have plagued the filming of Chase's latest flick, Horror Hotel. The b...
The Songs of Earth series beings with “a daring, often dazzling storytelling feat—and absolutely not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews). It is the year 143,624 Cyclic, and Earth possesses only a past. The immortal Alan-Blue-Cloud, remem...
A new enemy, a savage battlefield, a devastating loss...Dicken Quinney proved himself as a brilliant and heroic pilot in World War One, saving the lives of his fellow RAF servicemen, and winning a slew of medals. It is now the near aftermath of the G...
Winter. The lake has frozen over. The island is covered with snow. Everything is still and white. Everything except the people at the bottom of the lake. The dead people, with their bright blue eyes and their strange, translucent skin. They have b...
The first time their lips met, Kate Lonigan knew Mike Fleming was the man for her. It wasn't just his authoritative demeanor and incisive moves as temporary troubleshooter in her insurance office. There was something about his warm green eyes and wit...
Old Charlotte Aubrey has died. Yet something still lives at Aubrey House, glowing with a strange blue light, breathing in the dark, waiting... -- Is it waiting for Richard Creighton, the brilliant philosopher who longs to forget the terrible accide...
Houston sprawls in the sun like a woman ready for the richest comer. Past the plush condos of expatriate Brazilian to the city’s rotting wharves, wealthy Police Detective Stuart Haydon cruises in his Jaguar -- hunting a killer. The homicides chi...
It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The M...
Weary of his battles with the bureaucracy, with the bottle, and with his profession, an unemployed Soviet journalist reviews his file of clippings and recalls the real people and events now reduced to bland, officially approved lines...
Inspector Coghill investigates the murder of Karen Whitfield, an enterprising woman who indulged the sexual fantasies of her gentleman callers, videotaped them, and developed a lucrative blackmail sideline...
Bryan Stewart made his living diving beneath the sea. The underwater world held no terrors for him, but the world of emotion was another story altogether. Laurel Rand's job was to film a documentary on Bryan's latest expedition, but she soon fell ...
Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society...
Ruth Bannion had never met anyone like Russian emigre choreographer Nickolai Davidov. Ruth was open, giving, but Nickolai's background had left him reserved, even wary, and his pride would not let him reveal his need for her. Fear of rejection ke...
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Fay...
Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from ...
They boldly grasp for life beyond society's narrow confines: Flanders Wilde: A woman who casts off the restraints of Victorian propriety to shock her male colleagues and love a desperate fugitive with a price on his head. Lachlan McKenzie: A ma...
A classic novel of Vietnam and its aftermath from Philip Caputo, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir A Rumor of War is widely considered among the best ever written about the experience of war.
At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winnin...
Departing as Air chronicles the memories of Jessie, now old and widowed, as she nears the end of her life and looks back on her two marriages, her emotional breakdown and recovery, and her ultimate acceptance--and celebration--of life....
First with tender love, then with a darker passion, he taught her the meaning of desire WAS HIS AN ARISTOCRAT'S GAME OR AN ARCH-DEMON'S GAMBIT? Reckless tomboy when she defied her father, gentle lady when she cared for the weak or helpless, you...
Earth has become a library planet for thousands of years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge -- esoterica of all types, history, science, politics -- gathered by teams of “pack rats” who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. ...
Dirk, premier photographer of women, knows beauty when he chances upon it....
Dodge City is as wild a town as they come. In fact, when Clint Adams comes riding in, things are pretty much out of control. Young Deputy Sheriff Bill Tilghman is trying his darndest, but it will take a pack of lawmen to tame this town. A frighte...
What kinds of secrets do dolls keep? Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying noises coming from the dollhouse, and the dolls she was playing with are not where she left them. Dolls can't move by themselves, she tells herself. But ever...
Based on the historical thief who lived in Japan in the late 1600s or early 1700s, this is a story of Ishikawa, who steals to feed the poor and hungry. “Luenn’s version of a Japanese folktale hums with suspense. Hague’s soaring, beautiful paint...
It's Halloween, 1914. Teenage psychic Blossom Culp sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party-and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send h...
When Molly Knight reads her birthday card from Duncan Grover at her Sweet Sixteen party, she knows that he's the boy for her. But then Duncan's best friend, Matt, asks her to Landon High's senior prom-the kind of formal dress-up prom she's always dre...
Terrified of growing up and confronting her femininity and the prospect of independence, fifteen-year-old Willa, the sensitive daughter of an artistic, affluent Manhattan couple, embarks on a desperate course of self-starvation...
THE ART OF LOVING... J.T. had expected to find new artists on her buying trip to Europe. She hadn't expected to lose her heart to the most difficult of them all. He was Jake Marshall, and despite his talent he had shut himself off from his nat...
It began without warning... -- The babies stillborn, monstrously deformed...the adults dying, one by one. Then without reason it stopped. The beautiful New England town forgot. Once again healthy children skipped along its tree-lined streets. E...
The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The SilenceAt Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During a...
Him! It was him! Yesterday he'd terrified her, tracking her through Washington. Today he infuriated her, barging into her office to introduce himself -- Reid Mecena, the Arizona senator's son. The sophisticated East and the rugged West had met. C...
Two sisters -- the beautiful and alluring Marilyn, and her smart and savvy sister, Roy -- move to Beverly Hills with their mother after the death of their father, so that they can attend the posh public school Beverly Hills High. Though they live in ...
Assuming a new name for a summer job as a camp counselor in order to put his problems behind him, a college student finds that decision regrettably complicates his relationship with a girl who has a secret of her own....
Edwin Muir wrote of Ivy Compton-Burnett in the Observer: ''Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her literary contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possibility of rivalry... She ta...
THE GRIFFINS HAD MONEY. POWER AND POSITION. ALL THEY CRAVED WAS LOVE... Anthony Griffin dreamed of going to sea. He got more than he bargained for... Ceci was a beautiful Acadian outcast whom Antony loved more than life itself... Sophia def...
Ah, the tranquility of the English countryside. Where bizarre late-night phone calls shatter the silence. Eccentric neighbors turn heartrending private grieves into frightening public rituals. And an at-large sex murderer searches for fresh prey. ...
FLESH AND BLOOD, FIRE AND ICE, CLOSE AS SISTERS, DISTANT AS STRANGERS With her hot temper and unconventional opinions, Elizabeth yearned for adventure in the vast expanse of the West, daring to go beyond marriage for the passions her husband couldn'...
"I'VE COME TEN THOUSAND MILES TO SAVE MY FAMILY'S SHIPS. NO MAN WILL STOP ME NOW." So Erin Conroy declared as the Yankee shipping heiress arrived in Japan to discover that Storm Davin, the proud Southern Aristocrat she had refused ...
Possessed of astonishing beauty, steady self-possession, and a glorious style, Mary Skoning, the daughter of a dairy farmer, pursues a modeling career in Chicago, makes an unlikely marriage in Montana, and finds passion and troubles in a second marri...
Mystery Writers of America Presents: An innocent game turns tragic Drafted into telling fortunes at a fund-raising carnival, Angela Dawn prepares herself by studying a book on palmistry, never dreaming that lives will be changed by her predictio...
Mark Van Holden was one of the most attractive men Joanna Sinclair had ever met. But the shy young widow was all too aware of his scandalous love affairs that had shocked society from New York to Newport. When Joanna became Mark Van Holden's bride, t...
Any smart woman can learn to be a good homemaker. The real question is: Should the role take over her whole life? Dory Faraday, 31, is an executive on the rise at an ultra-sophisticated New York women's magazine. But she decides to give it all up ...
The second book in the Hank the Cowdog series opens with Hank defending the ranch against the attack of a Silver Monster Bird. Later he is stricken with the dreaded disease, Eye-Crosserosis, and unless he can find a cure for this dangerous condition,...
Sarah embarks on a dangerous mission in Spain when she searches for her father, a famous exposâe writer, who has mysteriously disappeared from his hotel....
Inside the Kremlin, the Chairman is dying. Those who vie to replace him struggle in the shadows. Andropov is the leading contender, but the insane, brilliant Boris Gamov is preparing to make a move of his own -- if he wins out, the U.S. and Soviet Un...
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.
The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel ...
"WHO ARE YOU?" TI ASKED. "YOUR SERVANT," HE REPLIED. "I DON'T THINK SO." For three long years, Ti Bennett had followed her father's orders. She'd run the ranch and cared for her two sisters. Then she received ...
A newscaster’s son disappears, and Amos Walker dives into the depths of Detroit to rescue the boy
On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a 10,000-watt smile, and the God-given abi...
Anna’s role in her family of gospel singers is an important one—far away from the stageEvery member of the Glory family is blessed with abundant musical talent. Everyone, that is, except for Anna. She can’t sing or play an instrumen...
First published in 1963, A God and his Gifts was the last of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels to be published in her lifetime and is considered by many to be one of her best. Set in the claustrophobic world of Edwardian upper-class family life, it is...
UNDONE BY FATE With her dear father dead, Amber Forrest was alone in a foreign land, at the mercy of a cruel, domineering stepbrother who vowed he would bend her to his will and make her his bride. PURSUED BY DESIRE But Amber was a prize all me...
From the magnificent mansions of POrt London to the fabulous facadesof Park Avenue and the French Riviera-- Here are the private secrets and the public pleasures of the East Coast's power-elite whose blood fortunes and family connections are born of ...
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)Bucky Wunderlick, rock sta...
The Green Odyssey' is an uproarious, hell-bent adventure story, combining fantasy, imagination and science, with a liberal dash of humor. It is in the best tradition of adventure science fiction, a swashbuckling tale of a resourceful spaceman who is,...
Could she be jealous of her own teenage daughter, a budding blond beauty who had apparently enchanted a man more than twice her age? Ridiculous! Katherine Meadows thought she had good reason to mistrust the arrogant new neighbor her two children a...
Captain Robert M. Falconi of the 5th Special Forces had his orders: the clandestine SOG needed an enforcement arm and Falconi was to put it together. Made up of the best jungle fighters if R.S. could muster, they were to take the war to Charlie - no ...
Carla Gelsey returns to her childhood home intent on restoring the Victorian mansion she always admired. But handsome Blake Mercer is equally determined - along with the town council - to tear it down. When Carla hires a group of carpenters to begin ...
The Cond?s of Charleston were an 18th century Carolina family to rival the Ewings of Dallas for scandal, drama and daring. These headstrong French Huguenots were determined to forge a dynasty and create their own legends with passionate secrets and l...
THE HAUNTING Turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn isn't easy, but for Andrea Torgesen, the hard work is exactly what her younger brother, Jim, needs after a serious car accident. Or, so she thinks -- until Jim is haunted by un...
THE CORPSE WENT BY BUS “The Goff Place mystery” remained unsolved, the body of the murdered pawnbroker never found. On the night of the killing, a bus had parked on the narrow cul-de-sac. Witnesses saw two elderly passengers dozing. Later a gh...
Unlucky thirteen! Jenna thought. It was two years since she'd met him, eleven months since he'd vanished. Their marriage had lasted exactly thirteen months. Together they'd been the music world's most beautiful -- and explosive -- couple. Since th...
Filled with cameo portraits of prominent sports legends of the early twentieth century, this novel brings to life the era in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox, accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, became known as the ""Black So...
Twelve-year-old Caroline's discovery of a forgotten painting in the family barn leads to her father's restoration of the portrait of Sprite, a filly in the Racehorse Hall of Fame, and a revelation about the previous owners of their old house....
A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at...
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But...
This hardback book "The Human Body: WIth Three-Dimensional, Movable Illustrations Showing the Workings of the Human Body" is pre-owned and is in good condition. The cover has some wear mainly the edges. On the first page it has the name of the previo...
Sometimes mistakes are made in loving regret Cassandra Spencer was nervous. She had finally made the decision to go back to work after her husband, Quinn, died, but now, in the moment before she was to meet with Quinn's ex-partner, Casey had cold ...
SHE WAS A FOOL TO FALL IN LOVE Fate played a cunning trick on tourist journalist Meg Brown. Because of a dizzying series of mishaps in romantic Venice, she found herself entangled with the most stunningly attractive man she'd ever met. Marco Monte...
After the Civil War, Nevada lured every brand of dreamer with the silver glitter of its Comstock Lode, the promise of new riches and adventure. -- Here, a gracious, polished hardworking Lady set up a house of pleasure unrivalled in opulence and pro...
Matrimony was simply not Elinor Bennett's affair. As landlady of a bustling coaching inn, lovely Nell did her best to conceal her feminine charms, while overseeing the family business in her brother's absence. Soon Elinor was so successful at innkeep...
To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change - this is the dilemma explored in this novel, which is set in 1930s London and portrays the complex ebb and flow of relationships within the Standish family. The author was the Winner of...
A political satire edged with fantasy, this book traces the life and rise to political power in an unnamed South American country of a witch doctor--"The Master"--a character modelled on Lopez Rega, Isabel Peron's Interior Minister...
In a Fury of Ungodly Hatred and Ungodly Love Fierce guardian of her ancestral heritage, reigning beauty at the rakish court of Charles II, Annunciata Morland's restless spirit refused to be confined by her illustrious station. With a will of iron,...
SOMEONE'S PLAYING TAX COLLECTOR AND MAKING OFF WITH A MINT! A Federal agent is missing and U.S. Marshal Long is the one sent to bring him home. But a hired killer is lurking in the shadows, just aching to put a bullet in Longarm's back. Could it b...
Two Englishmen are travelling the dusty roads of 16th century India: Thomas Coryat, a physician and man of science, who comes to India to find a cure for his wife's leprosy in the famed medical library at Agra; and Brother Peter, known as Frog, who h...
Prior to the publication of this beloved novel, nearly every gay novel and play seemed to end in suicide--or at least deep despair. Merrick was one of the first writers to insist that a gay relationship could in fact be a happy one. The Lord Won't Mi...
BOONE ADAMS--He was so smart he wrote half the English papers for the freshman class, when he wasn't getting drunk at night and waking up hung over in the morning. To him life was full of promise . . . just the ones it didn't intend to keep. JENNI...
When golden-haired Alexandra first saw the dark-haired stranger, her fury knew no bounds. How dare he intrude on her privacy as she swam in her secret pool! The moment Captain Joshua Steele set eyes on the angry young woman, he saw only a delectable ...
Dark-haired historian Merilyn Pierce was investigating the past when she went to the old New England inn. But what she found was a very modern romantic dilemma in Morgan Drake, the captivating, domineering, yet mysteriously aloof real estate tycoon w...
Sam attempts to discover who is gassing the assembly-line workers at the parachute factory, the town's largest industry, and traces the culprit to the hotel his own family manages. Originally published as
Trudi was torn between two worlds Trudi Carr loved her exciting fashion career in Christchurch. And she was determined not even marriage would steal her away from it! But when Dan Johnson, a sensitive yet arrogant drifter, proposed on the roman...
A grand tale of intrigue in nineteenth-century China, where imperial rule is crumbling as the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion rage, from the author of Manchu. Loyalty is put to cruel test in Shanghai, where Jewish merchant Saul Haleevie and his long...
Matthew was mesmerized by the gorgeous golden creature in the aqua lagoon. The flimsy cloth accentuated her luscious curves while her long dark hair seductively surrounded her. To taste her honey lips would be heaven. To hold her in his arms would be...
A stunning and understated debut novel of seduction and infidelity about a woman who, devastated by the death of her son, takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law. Following the devastating death ...
A soldier of fortune. His cat. His ex-lover. With a clean shot at 10 million. All they have to do is read the want ads. Blackmail the CIA. Shut down a major American city. And get away with it ... When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a pr...
A DETERMINED YOUNG BEAUTY COURTED DANGER WHEN SHE DECIDED SHE WOULD BE MORE THAN AN ENGLISH LORD'S PERFECT WIFE SHE HAD EVERYTHING A WIFE COULD WANT. BUT SHE WANTED MORE. Courtney's marriage to Lord Nigel Davies should have made her the happies...
The hilarious underground bestseller about one woman’s pursuit of carnal pleasure -- and the philosophy that gets in the way.
When Renee Feuer goes to college, one of the first lessons she tries to learn is how to liberate herself from the ...
Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920...
IT COULDN'T BE A WORSE TIME TO GET INVOLVED... Selina was proud to be a professional chef. But her dreams for success didn't stop there. She was determined to build a rewarding career, and nothing could stand in her way. Except Gilmarti...
AN ACCIDENT OF LOVE Summer theater was an exciting new experience for actress Robyn Flannery, but when she was framed in a hit-and-run accident, it seemed like the end of her dreams. David Christopher, a handsome veterinarian and father of the ...
A TOUCH OF FIRE Tall, honey-blond with gray-blue eyes, Jennifer Gardiner hardly fit the role of Publicity Director for the Philadelphia Freedom football team. A lawyer and a professional in a rough-and-tumble world of men, she'd learned to be ...
He wears the guise of a Necromancer: the black cloak, the broadrimmed hat, the gauze mask painted with a death's head. But raising the dead is the least of his Talents. He is a wild card that threatens the True Game itself. Demon. Doyen. Dragon. a...
John Cooper Baines -- the Hawk -- now rides forth to battle his deadliest foe. Clad in buckskin, his long rifle at his side, he is the undefeated master of this wild, sprawling Texas land. But a white renegade has sworn allegiance to hell itself ...
Lacey Fosburgh, an American Journalist, author and academic best known for her bestselling book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977) was born in 1942 and died in 1993. She was born in Manhattan, New York, to the journalist Hugh ...
Awesome for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador.
5:30 A.M. in ...